Integrated service system launched

The Jakarta mayoralty has decided to use the integrated service system to process land and building permits that has been in use in the South Jakarta mayoralty as a model of city planning.

The decision to have other mayoralties copy South Jakarta was made when Governor Surjadi Soedirdja met the city's five mayors at City Hall on Thursday.

The service in South Jakarta was launched on Sept. 27 and is open every Tuesday and Wednesday at a resident's house.

The system aims to cut the arduous bureaucratic chain as well as providing better service for people processing land certificates, building permits and city planning recommendations.

The city authorities also agreed to continue demolishing illegal buildings throughout the city.

Between June 1993 and September 1994, 205 illegal buildings were torn down in South Jakarta. During the same period South Jakarta officials revoked 603 building permits and issued 528 new permits. (yns)